freech

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by freech 8y ago
"Income from virtual currency transactions", not "virtual currency transactions".
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by freech 8y ago
There are lots of CRUD apps that help people in need.
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by freech 8y ago
You could require people to advance some money, that they only get back if they pass the test.
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by freech 8y ago
If you want to stop having casual sex but feel you can't control yourself, maybe you can have yourself committed to some sort of clinic, instead of trying to take away the possibility from everyone else too? (Which probably wouldn&#x27
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by freech 8y ago
The person who runs the platform could do some calculations themselves and then throw people out if there's a disagreement.
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by freech 8y ago
Reddit but only academics can participate? Probably better then peer review, but it won't have the aura.
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by freech 8y ago
This is protectionism for capitalists. At the end, capital competes for labor and less foreign capital means domestic capitalists have to pay less.
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by freech 9y ago
> Even Green’s 93-year-old father sometimes asks if he really wants to spend his time making life difficult for companies that employ thousands of Brits. This is such a teriffic argument. The mafia also employs people. If a company that
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by freech 9y ago
You've got to be kidding. What about the cast system? Do you think that would be better or worse now if the british had never colonialised india? Would india be a democracy now?
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by freech 9y ago
> In October 2008, Barclays was saved from collapse thanks to a $12 billion investment led by Qatar’s government. As part of the transaction, Barclays paid Qatar a secret $452 million fee for “advisory services” and loaned the country an
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by freech 9y ago
It follows from the law of marginal utility.
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by freech 9y ago
So china invades Taiwan, Taiwan nukes them, and then? China decides to nuke them of the map instead?
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by freech 9y ago
The entire point of cryptocurrency is to control it yourself, by owning the private keys. Instead of investing in ethereum with coinbase, why not invest in a centralized smart contract platform (much easier and even safer as long as you tru
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by freech 9y ago
> There was a guy a while ago who bought a hardware wallet on ebay and lost all his coins. Was this because he sent his coins to a paper wallet that the seller generated for him? I would be impressed if someone had actually managed to pr
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by freech 9y ago
> We'd probably know if they'd ever tested a weapon. We wouldn't necessarily know if they'd actually built one. If I were them, I totally would have. What's the point of having nuclear weapons and not telling eve
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by freech 9y ago
The employees of corporations are absolutely subject to things like the 3 strikes law and the death penalty for things they do for the corporation. So it makes sense that they have the same rights when they do things for the corporation. It
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by freech 9y ago
> If you're in a country where child pornography is legal, should all other countries just accept it? Yes. > If you're in a country where doxxing is legal, should the victims not be able to do anything against it? No.
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by freech 9y ago
I wonder whether Amazon accounts for this properly. If someone asked them to remove a competitors products, how much money would they demand? They'd have to calculate the damage this does their brand. Do they calculate in this case?
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by freech 9y ago
> mainly because the www.gutenberg.org site has some content in the German language. That's an extraordinary theory of international law. By that logic Austria and Namibia also have jurisdiction.
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by freech 9y ago
In contrast to Warren Buffett, who presumably uses his Coca-Cola shares to buy coffee somewhere.
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by freech 9y ago
I honestly don't get the point of this company. If I feel competent to judge that some decision they make like investing in American Express is good, why not do that directly, myself?
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by freech 9y ago
How is American Express not a primarily digital business?
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by freech 9y ago
There's a third possibility in your example though: Invest in mining the PoW currency.
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by freech 9y ago
> first, you identify inefficiencies in the market: weaknesses, loopholes, things like that Huh? That's not what inefficiency means. It means that an asset costs more (or less) then it's worth.
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by freech 9y ago
The difference here is that if I fail to secure my wallet only I loose my money, but if the bank fails to secure their database, all its customers loose their money.
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by freech 9y ago
"Private blockchains are a different matter, and they will have applications in e.g. automating many transactions." A private blockchain is just an inefficient databse. "which is nevertheless very effectively backed by the go
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by freech 9y ago
> And in New York, a small union called the New York Taxi Workers Alliance declared that there would be no taxi pickups from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday night at John F. Kennedy International Airport. > For Uber, that would create ex
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by freech 9y ago
As soon as a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a useful measure.
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by freech 9y ago
It's impossible to only question those ideas you personally really need to question, while ignoring other ideas you hear that seem wrong. You either develop a habit of questioning or not. Habits need to be simple, you can't have a
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Ask HN: Experience with Hamming's Advice: “Keep your subconscious starved”
2 points by freech 9y ago|1 comments

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